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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80839	Berith Anti-Baal, or Zach. Croftons appearance before the prelate-justice of peace, vainly pretending to binde the covenant and covenanters to their good behaviour. By way of rejoynder to, and animadversion on Doctor John Gauden's reply or vindication of his analysis, from the (by him reputed) pitiful cavils and objections; but really proved powerful and convincing exceptions of Mr. Zach. Croftons Analepsis. / By the author of the Analepsis, and (not by the Dr observed) Analepsis anelephthe, to the continuing of St. Peter's bonds, and fastning his fetters against papal and prelatical power.	Crofton, Zachary, 1625 or 6-1672.	1661 (1661)	Wing C6988; Thomason E1085_6; ESTC R208062	67,248	104

whom our consent must be subject but in it self hu●tful yea sinful and so the subserviency of the will to the understanding is superseded by an Oath Again the dictates of nature and discoveries of the Old Testament do direct the matter of an oath to be expressed with all certainty and clearness and the Covenant doth accordingly express all the particulars covenanted but this oath is so far from certainty of the matter sworn that it binds the conscience to an caetera of infinite extension and boreth a passage into a mans conscience for whatsoever shall be fathered upon and said to be intended in the caetera which might be at least Moneks and Abbeys no less legal and established then this Episcopacy Again the dictates of Nature and discoveries of the Old Testament do direct the National tie of an oath to be stamped by the collective body of the Nation as was the Covenant but not the Oath caetera which was by a picked pack'd Convocation without any authority Ecclesiastical or civil to impose or prescribe an Oath upon the Subjects Nay if we give the Doctor his fancy and suppose the Prelates Justices of the Peace they run into a premunire who bind the Subject to the good behaviour by an oath not directed by Law Thirdly That the Oath of the caetera disseised no honest man of his freehold or estate I must understand him in his consequences of it as he doth the Covenant and then I must enquire what it means that the Minister or beneficed dignified person refusing this Oath after one moneths consideration shall be suspended ab officio after two moneths consideration a beneficio after three months consideration shall be deprived of all promotion and execution of his function Sure the Doctor is as well studied in the Canons of 1640. as the Covenant 1643. Is not a Benefice the Ministers freehold and estate as much as the Bishoprick is the Bishops or are the suspension a beneficio yea deprivation no disseisure of the same and suspension ab officio no injustice and impiety Sir Your second thoughts will sure sink your parallel and consequence and your reply will be found more light and shufling then Mr. Croftons Queries which answer themselves by way of expostulation Pag. 14● proving against Dr. Gaudens assertion that the New Testament is not the onely rule which must direct the Nationalty or other circumstances of a Covenant determinable by the light of nature As to the question you pretend not answered it is but now started and is not in your Analysis What erigents in religion did ever put any Church or Christian Subjects upon such a way of publick covenanting c. Yet by your leave Sir Mr. Crofton did say something which may answer it Find you a Church or Christian people and erigents of Religion so capacitated for nature number quality and just authority Analepsis p. 22. and Mr. Crofton will finde such a Covenant untill then observe Mr. Croftons Query Must we enquire onely what hath been done in the Christian Churches to do that and no more without regarding what may be done the condition of the Church so requiring And study Mr. Crofton his Analepsis Anelephthe sect 3. The Doctor hath not more shufled about Mr. Crose●f answering expostulation then he poorly shifts off his vindication and rescue of the Covenant from the odium of the Ligue de Saint in France which he as writing after his friends John Russels copy in his margin with a notorious falshood calls Mr. Croftons patte●n and in the Text upbraidingly crieth out Mr. Crofton not like an Eagle but a meaner bird stoops to feed on that long ago dead and noysom carkass the holy League in France as a very exemplary parellel for his holy Covenant Doctor are not you ashamed to father the Brats of your own fancy on Mr Crofton This parellel is your own bastard and quod fieri non debuit factum valet you begot it you must keep it Did not you in your Analysis labour to make the Covenant odious by this example Doth Mr. Crofton own or allow this League de Saint Nay doth he not condemn it onely stave off the odious reflection designed by an envious Renegado and Apostate I pray Sir read Mr. Croftons words again and see whether Mr. Crofton feed on this as a pattern on only a fence against your assault made by it May not the League de Saint and Oath caetera in England there is your parallel Dr. though SINFVL IN THE MATTER Sir rub your Romish spectacles be good spurs and directions in Christian policy may not the same means as abstracted from the matter be used to corroborate true Religion and Reformation why may not Popish policy teach Protestants to combine by Covenant Reverend Sir read my ridle Out of the eater came forth meat and out of the strong came forth sweetness Sir was not Mr. Crofton herein like an Eagle on the horns of an Hart scattering that dust in your eyes that caused you to throw your self into the praecipice of false accusation or appear not you like the envious and cruel Vulture killed by the oyl of Roses which sprang and grew out of the dung of a noysom dead carkass O man be honest though a Prelate p. 242 243. The Doctor tells us Mr. Crofton stranges at Dr. Gauden not finding the like lineaments in the Covenant as in the baptismal Covenant you are again mistaken Doctor for Mr. Cr. stranged at the transport of so grave and serious a Divine to oppose the baptismal Covenant to this Mr. Crofton did easily admit they were disparata but not opposita contraria this was Dr. Gaudens work to demonstrate if you will believe him he tells us the inconsistency is plain and fully explained by Dr. Gauden where or how why if it obligeth to injustice oppression sedition sacriledge schisme and Iliades of miserable innovations at this rate it will appear but ifs or ands are no proofs or demonstrations if they were I would soon prove your Prelacy a Papacy and store your Table with Episcopal plenties and dainties for if the Elements fall we shall catch Larks this way of disputing is apparently Jesuitical Machiavilian and barbarous so far from baptismal that it is plainly irrational what good duty Justice morality or Religion may not be ruined if a man 's fancyed if be reason enough against it if the Bishoprick of Exeter be unjustly held by Dr. Gauden from Mr. Crofton or Bath and Wells from D. B. it is unjust and sacrilegious and they are both bound to abandon their places and avoid their Seats and to restore them how like you the Argument is it not very Logical and Cogent Sir draw up a positive charge and prove it Mr. Crofton will stand to it that he will renounce the Covenant in the mean time let me desire the Doctor to take a view of the parallel between this and the baptismal vow or covenant proposed

by Mr. Cr. in his Analepsis Analephthe Sect. 3. pag. 35. and avoid it if he can onely take notice it is the honesty of the Covenant not all Covenanters that Mr. Crofton pleads with confidence he confesseth many cups may be found in his brethrens sacks but not in any Article of the Covenant and Dr. Gaudens multiplyed reiterated Ifs do make me confident of Benjamins innocency and apt to think things unknown are thrust upon them but not from so pious a principle and to so charitable an end as Joseph acted from and aimed at but truely Doctor it is a Sophistical evasion to confound things and persons in a dispute but this the learned Doctor doth decline as to the name office degree order and Authority of a Bishop in Scripture Sir do you not now appear a greater dictatour then little Mr. Crofton Pag. 249. who rationally urged his exception and is no way affraid or unwilling in this case to try a turn with Dr. John Gauden on the questions before propounded who yet will hold to his ingenuous agnition which so much pleaseth you viz. that the Covenant is not levelled against any real excellency in the Bishops which is all that Mr. Crofton agnifed Analep Pag. 25. though you according to your usual falshood do add authority estate and honour which Mr. Cr. noted to be unwarrantable neither to be assumed by them nor attributed to them and Sir I must tell you ruine and extirpation of the frame of the English Hierarchy doth no way interfere with the preservation and esteem of any real excellency in Bishops but that Mr. Crofton may be ready and bound if in a capacity to vail that pompous worldly State and wicked superiority which Church Governours had obtained a note or instance of which he gave in Lawn sleeves no more puerile or scurrilous nor unbeseeming a Scholar or Gentleman then the baseness and contemptible inferiority of Presbyters was by you marked out in a black coat to which that was opposed is below the sobriety of a man the humility of a Primus Presbyter and reverence of a Christian to the poorest meanest Minister of Christ and speaks your prelatical Pride much more then your Rochet and Chymer sets out your pomp which my baptisme binds against and will engage the Boanergesses of God to thunder out terrour against Covenant breaking which you account a weak Womanish flash Pag. 249 251. yet will not be quenched by your first demonstrations or this reply by your judicious self proclaimed rational and conscientious though to all men beside proud prophane ridiculous weak and wicked whilst Mr. Crofton seeketh not to strain the ●ovenant beyond its own just and ingenuous resolution Pag 251. sence operation influence and obligation consenting to and rejoycing in its limitation to the Word of God and dutys of our places and callings by which Mr. Crofton is resolved he will be judged and is in himself assured that King and Kingdome accordingly keeping their Covenant the controverted Episcopacy will be at an end and the commission of our present Prelate Justices expired and useless covenanters by their good behaviour proving the solemn League and Covenant to be as indeed it is Berith Anti-Baall which Dr. Gauden blasphemously denominateth Baal Berith and Mr. Crofton is nor shall no way be shye of retrospection how or by whom to what or in what sence it binds and the rationality of its obligation all which he hath seriously considered in an opposition to the Oxford Reasons to which the Doctor so often retireth as he may see in my Analepsis Anelephthe pag. 265. We have seen the Doctors strength in the defence of his indirect answer and consideration of the Covenant which being done he proceeds to reinforce his direct answer and Goliah like being encouraged by the stature of little Mr. Crofton not taking notice of his stone and sling he triumphantly enters and tauntingly crieth Mr. Croftons fear good man is lest Dr. Gaudens down right blows may quite break in sunder Pag. 273 274. whatever may be of sacred bond in the Covenant the Reader that well regardeth the strength of his book cannot but with Laughter say there was great cause of fear but the best is it was but a fear and so on past for in the next assault Mr. Crofton is victor Mr. Croftons note that the paucity of the Covenanters doth not discharge its obligation is true had not Mr. Crofton much cause of fear and trouble I but in making Dr. Gauden one of the number Mr. Crofton reckoned without his host when that appears Mr. Crofton will cry true but the Doctor doth not dare not deny he sware it which if he should Mr. Crofton can tell who heard him preanh upon the Covenant acd saw him in the Pulpit at Bocking lift up his hand and swear it He doth indeed like a shifting runnegado labour to darken the act which retorts on his conscience in his now estate and tell us he never took an oath but those appointed by Law he might reckon the Covenant to be of this nature for the Authority of Parliament is by the Petition of Right the legal appointment of an Oath He tells us a large story how he did sense the Covenant and with what nonsense he did approve it understanding Extirpation to signifie Reformation and so by general salvoes and restrictions he cheated others and himself which Mr. Crofton hath detected in his Review of Reordination pag. 35. but may as soon acquit his soul from the bond as make the words of the Covenant bear his sence let him ●now equivocation in an Oath is no way short of Ananias and Saphira's lie unto the Holy Ghost it is much patience that the punishment hath not yet proclaimed it The Lord grant it may lead unto repentance He proceeds Mr. Crofton is apt to think the Covenant national not as in a Presbyterian illegal caetera sence which the Doctor adds but will not alter the case the sence being no way considerable to the Nationalty of it but in any sence signifies as little as other mens thoughts to the contrary But good Sir weigh the Reasons brought by Mr. Crofton and his answer to what you have objected as to the troubles of the Houses absence of some members or the like in Analepsis Anelepthe sect 6. which had you read would have saved or encreased your labour in your Reply Mr. Crofton must not shufle that into this book and therefore shall make bold to tell you His sacred Majesty and the Kingdom must submit to the plain and literal sence thereof though it seem as sowre grapes unless we will by Gods wrath set our own and childrens teeth on edge for the capacity of the Covenanters doth extend the obligation But The Doctor judgeth an oath extorted by fear to a mans private damage doth binde Pag 279. sure he means a proper damage for I cannot think he will in cool blood deny the Parents oath